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...life were also the most frustrating for Clarke, for after a three-year English professorship at University College Dublin, he was kicked out for marrying outside the Church. Clarke's marriage went sour all too soon, and his instability--perhaps a byproduct of the tension between his staunch Catholic upbringing and what he called his "little acts of curiosity about myself and others which had been set down by Freud"--led him into exile from Ireland and in and out of institutions for the rest of his life. In 1936, after returning to Ireland, Clarke wrote a poem called...
...want to make a problem." Said AFL-CIO President George Meany: "If this great country can't absorb another 30,000 people and help them find a way to make a living, it will be denying its heritage." Added House Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, who is a staunch fighter against illegal aliens but a supporter of legal immigration: "When this country forgets its immigrant heritage and turns its back on the oppressed and homeless, we will indeed have written finis to the American dream...
...flood control is that the drainage of more than 1.2 million acres of the nation's rich farm land below the dam is now insufficient Much of that land has become increasingly saline, reducing agricultural productivity by as much as 50%. For all that, the dam has some staunch defenders. They claim that Egypt eventually will not have to import any fertilizer; plants powered by electricity generated at Aswan* will turn out enough to make the country self-sufficient. The loss of the sardine industry, they say, is more than counterbalanced by the new fishing industry on Lake Nasser...
...students drew up a proposal recommending that the entire group be housed in the Yard next year as part of a "long term equalizing procedure" outlined in the Staunch Report...
...much military hardware to send to Egypt, whose President continues to proclaim his friendship for the U.S. The rapprochement of Iran and Iraq might lead to a lessening of the Soviet Union's influence within the Baathist government in Baghdad. The assassination of King Faisal removes a staunch anti-Communist from the scene, but 'may increase the stature of another strong anti-Communist mon arch in the area, the Shah of Iran. In general, there is little sympathy in most of the Moslem world for the U.S.S.R...